Kate Timmermann, Volunteer at FrancisCorps

Peace in Poverty

In college I used to worry about losing the people I loved. My family—the most important people in my life—seemed so far away, living their own lives back at home, and I would look around and think, “What am I doing here?” I would wonder why I was wasting time on homework and meetings and…

Kate Timmermann, Volunteer at FrancisCorps

Ministry of Listening

Kate Timmermann FC21 Volunteer

Northside Syracuse, where the FrancisCorps house is and where our parish, Assumption Church, has its outreach ministries, is a diverse neighborhood made up of many small communities, each with its own culture and language. The population that Assumption ministries serve is among the most vulnerable and least remembered in the Northside: the families who struggle…

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